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Wisdom Quotes - random


Sophocles | Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Ali al-Rida
Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.
John Denham
Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.




Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
William Collins
O Music! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Richard E. Byrd
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
Akiba ben Joseph
A fence to wisdom is silence.
Heraclitus | Wisdom Quotes
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.




John Hennigan
We don't dance with leprechauns at the Palace of Wisdom.
Bertolt Brecht
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Ambrose Bierce
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
Stephen Covey
Wisdom is synergy of mind and heart.
Arthur Conan Doyle | Wisdom Quotes
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
Hugo Grotius
Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.
Ali al-Rida
The most valuable stage of wisdom is the stage of self-consciousness.
Clarence Darrow
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
John Hennigan
If Santa came to the Palace of Wisdom, we'd beat him up with candy canes.


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